The Life And Adventures Of Bruce, The African Traveller
The Life And Adventures Of Bruce, The African Traveller

Author: Francis B. Head Sir

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9359951323

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"The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller" is a splendid tour narrative written by way of Sir Francis Bond Head, a British creator. The book vividly chronicles the incredible adventure of James Bruce, a Scottish traveler and explorer, in the course of the 18th century. Sir Francis B. Head's work is a fascinating account of Bruce's full-size travels across Africa, mainly Ethiopia, Sudan, and the Nile River location. Through certain descriptions and charming storytelling, the e book brings to life Bruce's encounters with various cultures, landscapes, and ancient occasions. It offers a completely unique attitude at the prevailing fascination with Africa and its mysteries at some point of the 19th century. The narrative now not simplest highlights Bruce's top notch adventures but also showcases Head's literary talents in creating a compelling and tasty account of Bruce's lifestyles and reports. The book stands as an essential historical and literary supply, losing mild at the exploration of Africa and the iconic allure of the continent at some stage in the 18th and nineteenth centuries. Sir Francis Bond Head's determination to sharing the fantastic adventure of James Bruce ensures that the legacy of this pioneering explorer endures inside the annals of exploration and journey literature.

Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade
Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade

Author: Jane Aptekar Reeve

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1728396263

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This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.